Indian Cricket Players Salaries 2018 (BCCI Central Contracts)

The Indian Cricket Players Salaries system is divided into three class A, B, and C respectively. The grading system is especially for the players who perform well and can be promoted or demoted on the basis of their performance. The grading list is centrally controlled and observed under the BCCI. The grade A players like MS Dhoni, Virat Kohli and R. Ashwin earns Rs 2 crore per year as retainer ship fees plus match fees. Check out the complete Indian Cricket Players Salaries 2018 for ODI, Test and T20 matches.

Update: BCCI announced that Indian players will now get Rs 15 lakhs per Test, Rs 6 lakhs per ODI and Rs 3 lakhs for T20 Internationals. Ajinkya Rahane along with Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara are the newcomers in group A while Suresh Raina and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are demoted in Team B because of less international Caps in previous years.

The salary of each team grade is determined as Grade A (Rs 2 crore), Grade B (Rs 1 crore) and Grade C (Rs 50 lakh). Harbhajan Singh, S Aravind, Pragyan Ojha and Ravindra Jadeja have been demoted to Team C because of their inconsistency while Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Kuldeep Yadav, Sanju Samson, Manoj Tiwary, Parvez Rasool, Pankaj Singh are out of the Team India C Team.

If a player who is not in the list of contracted players plays a minimum of three matches Test/ODI/T20I, he will be promoted to the Superior Grade respectively. Let’s take a look at the Indian Cricket Players Salaries 2017 list.

Indian Cricket Players Salaries List 2018

Grade A Central Contract 2017

PLAYER

RETAINER FEE

TEST FEE

ODI FEE

T20 FEE

Virat Kohli

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Ravi Ashwin

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Ajinkya Rahane

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

MS Dhoni

Rs 2 crore

Nil

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Cheteshwar Pujara

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Murali Vijay

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Ravindra Jadeja

Rs 2 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Grade B Central Contract 2017

PLAYER

RETAINER FEE

TEST FEE

ODI FEE

T20 FEE

Rohit Sharma

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

KL Rahul

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Mohammed Shami

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Umesh Yadav

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Wriddhiman Saha

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Jasprit Bumrah

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Ishant Sharma

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Yuvraj Singh

Rs 1 crore

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Grade C Central Contract 2017

PLAYER

RETAINER FEE

TEST FEE

ODI FEE

T20 FEE

Shikhar Dhawan

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Axar Patel

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Rishabh Pant

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Shardul Thakur

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Parthiv Patel

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Jayant Yadav

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Kedar Jadhav

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Ambati Rayudu

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Amit Mishra

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Manish Pandey

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Karun Nair

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Yuzvendra Chahal

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Dhawal Kulkarni

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

Mandeep Singh

Rs 50 lakh

Rs 15 lakh

Rs 6 lakh

Rs 3 lakh

How Indian Cricket Players Salaries Calculated?

Match Fee: Every individual player who plays an international match for the country is provided with the match fee. Match fee is the same for all the squad members.

Team Performance Bonuses: Performance Rewards are also given by the BCCI to the individual players if they score a Fifty or a Century against the top 3 ranking teams in the world. The Hike is 30-60% in their overall salary.

Retainer Fee:Retain Fee is guaranteed yearly retainer which will be paid to all cricketers in the central contract according to their category. The player in Grade A gets Rs 2 Crore, Grade B gets Rs 1 Crore and Grade C gets Rs 50 lakh a year.

Individual Performance Bonuses:Performance related bonuses are also rewarded for example Rs 500,000 for scoring a hundred in test or ODI, Rs Rs 700,000 for a double hundred in the test. Rs 500,000 for 5 wicket haul in Test, ODI or T20 and Rs 700,000 for taking a 10 wicket haul in test matches.